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FREEDOM AND FAIRNESS
VOL. 105 ISSUES
FOGHORN.USFCA.EDU
OCTOBER, 30 2008
Columnist Chris Hall
shares his faith and thoughts
on offensive videos that have
attacked his beliefs.
OPI
»
Nick 13, front man for successful! Psychobilly band Tiger
Army, speaks on issues of band
popularity and even the emergence of a solo album in an interview by Lani Hatakenaka.
_S£
Wt
The volleyball team stays
undefeated in the WCC (7-
0) after beating LMU and
Pepperdine this weekend.
While the women's soccer
team fell to both Gonzaga
and Pordand.
_SP
Students Struggle to Budget Flexi Spending
Increased food prices and expensive snacking eat up meal plan money
Melissa Stihl/Foghorn
Freshman Andrew Sanchez hands over his Flexi to purchase lunch in the Market Cafe on Monday afternoon. Many students are
worried about running out of Flexi before the semester ends.
CHELSEA M. STERLING
News Editor
Hard economic times are hitting USF
students as many are already running low
on Flexi, despite the fact that the semester
is just over halfway through. Many students are scrambling to save their last Flexi
dollars by skipping meals, not buying bot-
ded drinks and opting for cheaper meals.
Adriana Galvan, a sophomore entre-
preneurship major, said that she is "freaking out" about her low Flexi balance. She
has about $500 left, while a chart provided
by Bon Appetit estimates that students
should have between $825- $860 at this
point in the semester. While blaming the
exorbitant cost of food both in the Market
Cafe and Outtakes Cafe, she also admitted that when she hosts visitors, she allows
them to use her meal plan and buy whatever they want.
Junior resident advisors Christyl Wilson and Courtney Ball are also low on
Flexi. Wilson said that she often buys
meals for friends that are upperclassmen
who do not have meal plans. To conserve
Flexi, she is not buying bottled drinks and
avoids eating when she is not hungry. Ball
said she spends at least $1 a day on cardboard to-go boxes because she rarely eats
in the cafeteria. She also said that when
her current balance of $212 runs out, she
will not buy food at the cafeteria, but will
eat out at restaurants more often.
Part of an on-campus resident's tuition is a $1,725 fee, per semester, for the
meal plan. Bon Appetit manager Holly
Winslow recendy looked at a report that
showed that 75 percent of the 1,800 students who are on a meal plan are within
the budget and should not run out of Flexi
dollars. As for the remaining 25 percent,
Winslow recommends limiting trips to the
cafeteria, curbing spontaneous purchases
and limiting drinks from Jamba Juice,
which can run from $4-6. She also said
that many students do not look at the balances on their receipts.
Freshman Luke Hendrickson, whose
Flexi balance just dropped under $200,
said that he mistakenly thought that he
had more money. Next semester, he plans
to figure out a daily budget and stick to it.
In the meantime, he is planning to work
something out with friends who have
higher Flexi balances.
Frequent trips to the cafeteria are another common pitfall that students may
not realize is eating their Flexi dollars.
Winslow said she sees students that make
five trips to the cafeteria a day, getting
three meals, a snack and a beverage. These
small purchases add up quickly. When
FLEXI: Continued on Page 3
The Foghorn's four step plan for
making it through the semester
without going Flexi broke
Stepl:
Stop buying bottled water. Not only
does bottled water create unnecessary trash, but it costs lots of money. At
around $2 a bottle, buying one botde a
day will cost more than $200 over the
course of the semester. Instead, drink the
water from the soda machine in
or fill up your own reusable water
bottle and carry it with you throughout
the day.
Step 2:
No more mooching {by your friends
Paying for your roommates,
tes or out of town friends' meals
the caf may seem like no big deal, be-
use Flexi is not "real" money, except
that when you run out of Flexi you will
have to start using real money. Let your
friends know that you are not going to
pay for their lunch just because they
spent all their Flexi on Outtakes frivolities while you carefidly budgeted.
Step 3:
Head to Luckys and stock up on Top
Ramen, Cup Noodles, Easy Mac and
other cheap snacks. If you are truly low
on Flexi, try microwaving a few of these
meals at home instead of running down
your balance on Crossroads pizza.
Step 4:
Look for deals in the caf. Fruit is ex-
nsive, so are Odwalla juices and just
about everything in Outtakes. Because
you are going to have to start using cash
to buy food when you run out of Flexi
anyway, you are better off buying $4 de-
at Lucky's than $8 deodorant at
s.
Toast with peanut butter is cheap and
filling. Try two cinnamon toast with peanut butter sandwiches instead of a bur-
rito or chicken sandwich. A bagel sandwich is also a cheap option. Toast a bagel
and add lettuce, tomato and onion.
Senior Opposes Proposition K,
Advocates Sex Worker Reform
Hunter Patterson/Foghorn
USF students and Resident Advisors Lucy Hanley and Naod Sheferaw face off in a
friendly game of chess last Monday night in Hayes-Healy. Hanley and Sheferaw hope
to create a chess club on campus.
Chess Night Checks Into Hayes
HUNTER PATTERSON
StaffWriter
Freshmen residents from Hayes-Healy
and Gillson Hall headed down to the
Hayes JHealy lobby for an evening of chess
last Monday night where they participated
in friendly competition.
The chess event was hosted by Hayes-
Healy Resident Advisor Naod Sheferaw, a
super senior, junior Lucy Hanley, an RA
in Gillson and University Ministry Intern
Kilian Moote.
Hanley and Sheferaw are both chess
fans and challenge each other often, on
this particular evening, it was Hanley who
came out on top. Both are relatively new
to chess and were excited about creating
an opportunity for their residents to learn
the game along with them and get to know
each other in the process.
Hanley and Sheferaw plan to offer more
chess events in the near future and hope to
find someone to offer lessons to the group.
Eventually they would like to start a chess
club at USF.
Hanley said she knew a lot of students
who are interested in chess and hoped the
event would be an opportunity for people
of different ability levels to get together
and learn from each other.
CHESS: Continued on Page 3
ELYSE MARTIN
StaffWriter
Laura Aguirre, a senior politics major,
is working as the assistant event coordinator for the Not For Sale Campaign. Their
latest mission is campaigning for San
Franciscans to vote no on Proposition K,
which would decriminalize prostitution in
San Francisco. This would not necessarily
legalize prostitution, but it would make it
illegal for authorities to investigate, arrest
or prosecute anyone for selling sex.
Aguirrre said, "Regardless of whether
or not you believe prostitution should be
decriminalized, Proposition K is not the
way to go about it. If Prop K passes, law
enforcement would no longer be able to
investigate cases of human trafficking in
San Francisco. In addition, funding would
be taken away from SAGE, Standing
Against Global Exploitation, the primary
service provider for victims of human trafficking in the Bay Area."
The Not for Sale Campaign is an anti-
human trafficking organization working
to end the global slave trade, started by
USF Professor David Batstone and USF
students. It has successfully identified locations of human trafficking and reported
it to the local authorities. Aguirre said, "If
Prop K passed, these authorities would not
be able to look into these cases."
Proponents of Proposition K say the
proposition will decrease the amount of
pimps, because prostitutes will not feel the
Melissa Stihl/Foghorn
Laura Aguirre, a senior politics major,
has become an advocate against
Proposition K through her involvement
with the Not for Sale Campaign.
need for protection. But Aguirre begs to
differ. She said, "Decriminalizing prostitution does not benefit prostitutes, it benefits
pimps and Johns who will still maintain
their business, and likely increase it. This
proposition will prevent them from being
punished for selling human beings. Prostitution is not a business just like any other;
the statistic that 95% of prostitutes were
raped or sexually abused as a child or youth
before entering prostitution is a clear sign
that there is often physical, emotional and
psychological abuse playing a significant
role."
PROP K: Continued on Page 3
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FREEDOM AND FAIRNESS
VOL. 105 ISSUES
FOGHORN.USFCA.EDU
OCTOBER, 30 2008
Columnist Chris Hall
shares his faith and thoughts
on offensive videos that have
attacked his beliefs.
OPI
»
Nick 13, front man for successful! Psychobilly band Tiger
Army, speaks on issues of band
popularity and even the emergence of a solo album in an interview by Lani Hatakenaka.
_S£
Wt
The volleyball team stays
undefeated in the WCC (7-
0) after beating LMU and
Pepperdine this weekend.
While the women's soccer
team fell to both Gonzaga
and Pordand.
_SP
Students Struggle to Budget Flexi Spending
Increased food prices and expensive snacking eat up meal plan money
Melissa Stihl/Foghorn
Freshman Andrew Sanchez hands over his Flexi to purchase lunch in the Market Cafe on Monday afternoon. Many students are
worried about running out of Flexi before the semester ends.
CHELSEA M. STERLING
News Editor
Hard economic times are hitting USF
students as many are already running low
on Flexi, despite the fact that the semester
is just over halfway through. Many students are scrambling to save their last Flexi
dollars by skipping meals, not buying bot-
ded drinks and opting for cheaper meals.
Adriana Galvan, a sophomore entre-
preneurship major, said that she is "freaking out" about her low Flexi balance. She
has about $500 left, while a chart provided
by Bon Appetit estimates that students
should have between $825- $860 at this
point in the semester. While blaming the
exorbitant cost of food both in the Market
Cafe and Outtakes Cafe, she also admitted that when she hosts visitors, she allows
them to use her meal plan and buy whatever they want.
Junior resident advisors Christyl Wilson and Courtney Ball are also low on
Flexi. Wilson said that she often buys
meals for friends that are upperclassmen
who do not have meal plans. To conserve
Flexi, she is not buying bottled drinks and
avoids eating when she is not hungry. Ball
said she spends at least $1 a day on cardboard to-go boxes because she rarely eats
in the cafeteria. She also said that when
her current balance of $212 runs out, she
will not buy food at the cafeteria, but will
eat out at restaurants more often.
Part of an on-campus resident's tuition is a $1,725 fee, per semester, for the
meal plan. Bon Appetit manager Holly
Winslow recendy looked at a report that
showed that 75 percent of the 1,800 students who are on a meal plan are within
the budget and should not run out of Flexi
dollars. As for the remaining 25 percent,
Winslow recommends limiting trips to the
cafeteria, curbing spontaneous purchases
and limiting drinks from Jamba Juice,
which can run from $4-6. She also said
that many students do not look at the balances on their receipts.
Freshman Luke Hendrickson, whose
Flexi balance just dropped under $200,
said that he mistakenly thought that he
had more money. Next semester, he plans
to figure out a daily budget and stick to it.
In the meantime, he is planning to work
something out with friends who have
higher Flexi balances.
Frequent trips to the cafeteria are another common pitfall that students may
not realize is eating their Flexi dollars.
Winslow said she sees students that make
five trips to the cafeteria a day, getting
three meals, a snack and a beverage. These
small purchases add up quickly. When
FLEXI: Continued on Page 3
The Foghorn's four step plan for
making it through the semester
without going Flexi broke
Stepl:
Stop buying bottled water. Not only
does bottled water create unnecessary trash, but it costs lots of money. At
around $2 a bottle, buying one botde a
day will cost more than $200 over the
course of the semester. Instead, drink the
water from the soda machine in
or fill up your own reusable water
bottle and carry it with you throughout
the day.
Step 2:
No more mooching {by your friends
Paying for your roommates,
tes or out of town friends' meals
the caf may seem like no big deal, be-
use Flexi is not "real" money, except
that when you run out of Flexi you will
have to start using real money. Let your
friends know that you are not going to
pay for their lunch just because they
spent all their Flexi on Outtakes frivolities while you carefidly budgeted.
Step 3:
Head to Luckys and stock up on Top
Ramen, Cup Noodles, Easy Mac and
other cheap snacks. If you are truly low
on Flexi, try microwaving a few of these
meals at home instead of running down
your balance on Crossroads pizza.
Step 4:
Look for deals in the caf. Fruit is ex-
nsive, so are Odwalla juices and just
about everything in Outtakes. Because
you are going to have to start using cash
to buy food when you run out of Flexi
anyway, you are better off buying $4 de-
at Lucky's than $8 deodorant at
s.
Toast with peanut butter is cheap and
filling. Try two cinnamon toast with peanut butter sandwiches instead of a bur-
rito or chicken sandwich. A bagel sandwich is also a cheap option. Toast a bagel
and add lettuce, tomato and onion.
Senior Opposes Proposition K,
Advocates Sex Worker Reform
Hunter Patterson/Foghorn
USF students and Resident Advisors Lucy Hanley and Naod Sheferaw face off in a
friendly game of chess last Monday night in Hayes-Healy. Hanley and Sheferaw hope
to create a chess club on campus.
Chess Night Checks Into Hayes
HUNTER PATTERSON
StaffWriter
Freshmen residents from Hayes-Healy
and Gillson Hall headed down to the
Hayes JHealy lobby for an evening of chess
last Monday night where they participated
in friendly competition.
The chess event was hosted by Hayes-
Healy Resident Advisor Naod Sheferaw, a
super senior, junior Lucy Hanley, an RA
in Gillson and University Ministry Intern
Kilian Moote.
Hanley and Sheferaw are both chess
fans and challenge each other often, on
this particular evening, it was Hanley who
came out on top. Both are relatively new
to chess and were excited about creating
an opportunity for their residents to learn
the game along with them and get to know
each other in the process.
Hanley and Sheferaw plan to offer more
chess events in the near future and hope to
find someone to offer lessons to the group.
Eventually they would like to start a chess
club at USF.
Hanley said she knew a lot of students
who are interested in chess and hoped the
event would be an opportunity for people
of different ability levels to get together
and learn from each other.
CHESS: Continued on Page 3
ELYSE MARTIN
StaffWriter
Laura Aguirre, a senior politics major,
is working as the assistant event coordinator for the Not For Sale Campaign. Their
latest mission is campaigning for San
Franciscans to vote no on Proposition K,
which would decriminalize prostitution in
San Francisco. This would not necessarily
legalize prostitution, but it would make it
illegal for authorities to investigate, arrest
or prosecute anyone for selling sex.
Aguirrre said, "Regardless of whether
or not you believe prostitution should be
decriminalized, Proposition K is not the
way to go about it. If Prop K passes, law
enforcement would no longer be able to
investigate cases of human trafficking in
San Francisco. In addition, funding would
be taken away from SAGE, Standing
Against Global Exploitation, the primary
service provider for victims of human trafficking in the Bay Area."
The Not for Sale Campaign is an anti-
human trafficking organization working
to end the global slave trade, started by
USF Professor David Batstone and USF
students. It has successfully identified locations of human trafficking and reported
it to the local authorities. Aguirre said, "If
Prop K passed, these authorities would not
be able to look into these cases."
Proponents of Proposition K say the
proposition will decrease the amount of
pimps, because prostitutes will not feel the
Melissa Stihl/Foghorn
Laura Aguirre, a senior politics major,
has become an advocate against
Proposition K through her involvement
with the Not for Sale Campaign.
need for protection. But Aguirre begs to
differ. She said, "Decriminalizing prostitution does not benefit prostitutes, it benefits
pimps and Johns who will still maintain
their business, and likely increase it. This
proposition will prevent them from being
punished for selling human beings. Prostitution is not a business just like any other;
the statistic that 95% of prostitutes were
raped or sexually abused as a child or youth
before entering prostitution is a clear sign
that there is often physical, emotional and
psychological abuse playing a significant
role."
PROP K: Continued on Page 3
SAN FRANCISCO FOGHORN
2130 FULTON STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118
NEWSROOM 41.r>.422.(>122. ADVERTISING 415.422.2(>r>7